1 Corinthians 12:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You know that when you were heathen, you were led off after idols that could not speak [habitually] as impulse directed and whenever the occasion might arise.

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

Common English Bible

You know that when you were Gentiles you were often misled by false gods that can’t even speak.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led.

1 Corinthians 12:2 Cross References

Psalm 115:5

They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

Psalm 115:7

They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.

Psalm 135:16

They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

Isaiah 46:7

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:5

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 4:8

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods:

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: